Date: Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Place: Online at https://tinyurl.com/3923jp32
Cost: Free
Presenter: Jamie LaRue
For some time now, many communities have been grappling with political division and conflict. How can the library be a more positive and unifying influence?
Part of the solution is “turning outward”- the shift in librarianship that sees our services as part of a web of social assets to provide coordinated responses to pressing community needs. But to make this real we need to build narratives founded on human story, on evidence, and a deliberate frame of both individual and social value.
Join Jamie LaRue to learn strategies for coming together with community. By the end of the webinar, participants will be able to
* Articulate library services in a “community building” framework.
* Describe a low-cost process for gathering community wisdom.
* Build protocols that help frame public meetings and services around a larger framework of shared values.
* Demonstrate civic courage and institutional purpose.
If you’re interested but not able to attend the live webinar, go ahead and register. A recording will be sent to all registrants after the event.